(v. t.) To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.
(v. t.) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
(v. t.) To try to win, subdue, or overcome; as, one who attempts the virtue of a woman.
(v. t.) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp.
(v. i.) To make an attempt; -- with upon.
(n.) A essay, trial, or endeavor; an undertaking; an attack, or an effort to gain a point; esp. an unsuccessful, as contrasted with a successful, effort.
Example Sentences:
(1) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
(2) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(3) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(4) Attempts are now being made to use this increased understanding to produce effective killed vaccines that produce immune responses in the lung.
(5) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
(6) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
(7) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(8) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(9) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(10) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(11) Attempts to eliminate congenital dislocation of the hip by detecting it early have not been completely successful.
(12) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
(13) Several investigators have attempted to correlate chromosomal abnormalities with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CLS), but none of them have been conclusive.
(14) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
(15) Attempts were made to prolong the survival of the grafts by the use of cytotosine arabinoside, methylprednisolone, heparin and azathioprine.
(16) An attempt was made to elucidate possible participation of low molecular weight nuclear RNA's (LMWN RNA's) in the transcription process.
(17) As total pancreatectomy markedly reduces the pancreatic hormone level, leading to a mortal hypoglycaemia, we attempted to maintain plasma glucose within the normal range by constant I.V.
(18) In attempts to correlate GLUT-1 and GLUT-2 expression to beta-cell function glucose uptake and glucose-stimulated insulin release in fresh and cultured islets were measured.
(19) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(20) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
Retry
Definition:
(v. t.) To try (esp. judicially) a second time; as, to retry a case; to retry an accused person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Announcing that the acquittal on 1 November was erroneous, the Athens public prosecutor's office said the journalist should be retried by a higher misdemeanour court on the same charges.
(2) Twenty-four-hour blood pressure monitoring in two of the four centers demonstrated an error code rate of 3.4%, excluding 'retries' that are one of the device's features.
(3) Allen was due to be retried at Woolwich crown court in south-east London after an Old Bailey jury failed to reach a verdict in January.
(4) He will be retried along with the paper's former royal editor Clive Goodman who allegedly requested the payments.
(5) He was due to be retried at Woolwich crown court in south-east London but the Crown Prosecution Service revealed last week that he had admitted three charges relating to the plot.
(6) But after his appeal was dismissed he was retried earlier this month and a new panel of judges ruled that his repentance did not prevent his execution.
(7) It is able to quash a lower court's verdict if it finds errors of law were made, as it did last March when it annulled the pair's 2011 acquittals and ordered the Florence appeals court to retry the appeal.
(8) And you can never be afraid of being you.” Dunn was later retried and convicted in October for the killing of Davis, and we all breathed a brief sigh of relief that the jury believed Davis’ life mattered enough to punish the man who took it .
(9) State solicitor Scarlett Wilson said in a statement she would retry the case “whenever the court calls”.
(10) Only this year, the UK’s supreme court ruled that for the past 30 years British judges have been misconstruing crucial aspects of the joint enterprise guidelines, which may yet lead to scores, if not hundreds, of cases being reassessed and possibly retried.
(11) The family thanked him for a strong presentation,” he told the Guardian, “but they made it very, very clear that they definitely want to see the case put before a new jury and that this thing get retried.” Samuel DuBose police shooting: settlement 'won't bring Sam back' Read more DuBose’s family felt supported by the prosecutor and the community, Gerhardstein said, but felt the mistrial was a “terrible way to get any sort of resolution in this tragedy”.
(12) He will be retried along with the paper’s former royal editor Clive Goodman.
(13) It was the European court of human rights in Strasbourg that decided , in January 2012, that there was a real risk of Qatada being retried in Jordan on evidence that had been obtained by the torture of his two co-defendants.
(14) But after his appeal was dismissed, Fayadh, a key member of the British-Saudi art organisation Edge of Arabia , was retried and a new panel of judges last week ruled that he should be executed.
(15) Mubarak, 85, is being retried on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his downfall.
(16) "I think if they are not freed they must be retried with a fair trial because all of the trials were unfair with confessions extracted by torture and a lack of an independent judge.
(17) Now we can stop being distracted by elections and get back to work on what's really needed: releasing military prisoners, retrying those convicted in military courts, implementing a minimum and maximum wage, and so on."
(18) Three journalists from its English-language channel are being retried on charges of being part of a terrorist group and airing falsified footage.
(19) " Mubarak, 85, is being retried on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his downfall.
(20) The families of all three victims are pushing to have their cases retried as a single trial .